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Friday, August 11, 2017

Stereophonics To Release New Album On November 3rd

Twenty years after their debut ‘Word
Gets Around’ and six #1 albums later, Stereophonics are set to
release their new album ‘Scream Above The Sounds’ on November 3rdon Parlophone Records.

Their tenth studio album, ‘Scream
Above The Sounds’ follows ‘Keep The Village Alive’ which went
straight to #1 when it was released in 2015 – their sixth
chart-topper after ‘Performance and Cocktails’ (1999), ‘Just
Enough Education To Perform’ (2001) ‘You Gotta Go There To Come
Back’ (2003), ‘Language. Sex. Violence. Other?’ (2005)
and ‘Pull The Pin’ (2007).

Stereophonics consists of founding members KellyJones (vocals/guitar) and RichardJones (bass) along with AdamZindani (guitar) and JamieMorrison (drums). Long-term
keyboardist TonyKirkham joins the band for live shows.

Kelly said of the songwriting process
that he began to write “big, anthemic songs that are rallying against those
anxious feelings that have flooded through cities. Every song offers a sense of
release,” he says. “Even when there’s nostalgia, fear or anxiety,
they’re still all offering hope and room to manoeuvre.”

The first single ‘All In One
Night’ represents the band’s affection for the melancholy. Set to a
consistent mid-paced rhythm which evokes a nocturnal motorway drive, it finds
the narrator’s life taking a dramatic turn as night brightens to day.
Influenced by the Sebastian Schipper film ‘Victoria’, it’s a song
that had an unusual genesis – Kelly started it when the band had an
unscheduled day’s stay in China before he finished it back home in London.
Even the atmospheric call of the chorus was fortuitous, being an adaptation of
a vocal exercise he was using.

‘Scream Above The Sounds’ was primarily recorded in the
band’s HQ in west London with a further session at RAKStudios.
Created with the help of regular collaborator Jim Lowe, it’s an album in
which creative sonic touches add to the band’s emphasis on songwriting and
melody.

‘Scream Above The Sounds’ will be released on digital
(standard and deluxe), CD (standard and deluxe) and vinyl formats. It’s
available to pre-order from http://www.stereophonics.com with ‘All In One Night’
provided as an instant download.

Stereophonics will headline Kendal Calling
on July 28th, Y Not Festival on July 29th, and Victorious
Festival on August26th ahead of their set at BBC
2 Live In Hyde Park on September10th.